The times, they are a-changin'
Jun. 1st, 2005 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbsegalSo, there I was at Tech Squares last night, talking to a current MIT undergraduate about names.
We got to discussing my name and that there's neither a J nor a B in any of my given names.
She commented that I must really hate my given name. I said No, but that - among other things - having the initials "RMS" around here is not really a fun thing.
She looked puzzled.. Huh? Root Mean Square?
I said no, Richard M. Stallman.
She continued looking puzzled. Who?
The author of EMACS, the founder of the FSF?
Hm... never heard of him, says she.
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I remain utterly weirded by this, even now.
We got to discussing my name and that there's neither a J nor a B in any of my given names.
She commented that I must really hate my given name. I said No, but that - among other things - having the initials "RMS" around here is not really a fun thing.
She looked puzzled.. Huh? Root Mean Square?
I said no, Richard M. Stallman.
She continued looking puzzled. Who?
The author of EMACS, the founder of the FSF?
Hm... never heard of him, says she.
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I remain utterly weirded by this, even now.